ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has received a five-year, $69 million task order from the U.S. Agency for International Development to collect data from population-based surveys in multiple countries. The global consulting company said Wednesday that it will utilize information-gathering, analysis and monitoring tools to help USAID track countries’ perform...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential five-year, $172.7 million contract to operate and sustain airborne sensor equipment for the Missile Defense Agency. The company will continue to help MDA maintain systems, plan missions, conduct flight tests and modernize technologies of the agency’s High Altitude Observatory platform, ...
Private equity firm High Street Capital has acquired a controlling interest in Tysons Corner Virginia-based business process outsourcing company NeoSystems for an undisclosed sum. NeoSystems said Wednesday it will use the investment from High Street Capital to increase the number of new products, employees and channel offerings. Michael Tinsley and ...
Ryan Elliott, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of management consulting and business leadership experience, has joined Veterans Management Services Inc. as chief strategy officer. He will oversee VMSI’s service expansion initiatives in market areas such as information technology and help manage its overall performance, growth and st...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report outlining the components of a potential $740 billion annual defense policy bill approved by the House Armed Services Committee. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that the full House panel voted 57-2 Thursday, Sept. 2, to pass the ...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is integrating its U.S. federal team into the Azure engineering organization led by Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander as part of a reorganization to improve collaboration and better integrate platforms built for federal users into its cloud portfolio, ZDNET reported Wednesday. Rick Wagner, a 2021 Wash100 Award winn...
TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) has decided not to pursue a firm offer for U.K.-based aerospace company Meggitt, citing the “quite limited due diligence information that was made available.” TransDigm Chairman W. Nicholas Howley said in a statement Tuesday that the company had made efforts to advance a potential deal, such as arranging the needed fi...
Thomas Huber, formerly a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, has been named executive vice president and chief transformation officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY). He will lead a company-wide initiative, dubbed 1MPACT, to create value for customers and shareholders over the next five years, Mercury Systems said Tuesday. ...
Raylene Yung, co-founder and former CEO of the nonprofit U.S. Digital Response organization, has been appointed executive director of the General Services Administration’s Technology Modernization Fund program management office. She will manage the funding vehicle for agencies that apply to receive federal funds to modernize information techno...
KBR (NSYE: KBR) has won a potential $416.3 million task order to provide expeditionary staging area services at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic issued the task order with a $72.8 million base value, plus 10 unexercised options, as part of a multiple-award U.S. Navy contract vehicl...
